source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 01:37:38 -0800 Subject: Transcendental numbers -correction- From: COUL@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Brian wrote: > Claude Shannon proved elegantly that the amount > of information required to generate (or parse) a > message is proportional to the log to the base 2 > of the number of bits in the message. This is true if all the bits are 0 or 1. Manuel wrote: > That's not exactly true. But this is more the domain of > computational complexity. What I meant was computational information theory. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 16:29 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13197; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:29:37 -0800 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:29:37 -0800 Message-Id: <9512201526.AA12431@ ccrma.Stanford.EDU > Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu